Hicks

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

TRACYE BENARD WASHINGTON, 1:19-cv-00156-NONE-GSA-PC

Plaintiff, ORDER DENYING REQUEST FOR

RECUSAL OF MAGISTRATE JUDGE

vs. (ECF No. 53.)

HICKS, et al., Defendants. 16 I. BACKGROUND Plaintiff, Tracye Benard Washington, is a state prisoner proceeding pro se with this civil rights action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. This case now proceeds with Plaintiff’s original complaint filed on February 5, 2019, against defendants Sergeant David Hicks and Correctional Officer Hipolito Rocha for use of excessive force in violation of the Eighth Amendment. (ECF No. 1.) On March 25, 2021, Plaintiff filed a request for recusal of the magistrate judge assigned to this case. (ECF No. 53.) II. RECUSAL OF MAGISTRATE JUDGE Federal law provides that “[a]ny justice, judge, or magistrate judge of the United States shall disqualify himself in any proceeding in which his impartiality might reasonably be 27 …